Don't know how many saw this yet...I just did, as I don't really go to the official D&D website much now. (No L&L's, etc.)
But...this is hilarious.
http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/red-dragon
I loved the "how to kill a dragon" part at the end. That's 36,500 xp divided by 100 villagers. Everyone is level 2!
I liked the sad Otyugh at the begining. His face, lol. Then, it just got funnier. Serious kudos to the comic artist on this one. I love his dungeon crawl pieces too, but this one wins, IMO.
"uh-toy-UGG" "OH-tee-uh" "ah-TIE-uff"...? Seriously, though...How the F do you pronounce that?
Everyone...Try to phoenetically spell how you pronounce that beasts' name. I really want to know. I doubt I'm the only one.
I say "OH-tee-uh" when I have to. Although, I just discribe them and their actions 90% of the time. It's a running joke in my campaign world. No one knows exactly what to call them, so everyone, from lowly peasant to renowned scholar, just sort of looks at the floor; coughs, and mutters something.
seti wrote:
I pronounce it "Oh - tee - ug"; I don't know why, but I always want to put the "g" sound in there.
AW-tee-oog.
Need statblock for dracosharktopus please.
Quasadu wrote:
ChrisCarlson wrote:
Quasadu wrote:
lawrencehoy wrote:
I, too, do "OH-tee-ugg" or "OH-tee-yugg"
The Catoblepas, however...I think it's like, "Cat-oh-BLEE-puss" or something, but we always jokingly pronounce it "cat-uhhh-bluuhhhh-pluhhh" as airy and sloppily as we can
And Sahuagin we prounounce very loudly so it sounds like "HADOUUUKEN"
Timborama wrote:
Quasadu wrote:
There's a D&D pronunciation guide over at EN World that includes official TSR-era pronunciations. I'm on my phone, otherwise I'd link to it. I believe it says otyugh is pronounced "Ah-tee-ugh", while sahuagin is pronounced "suh-hwa-gin".
The one I can't figure out is "Chitine". Is it meant to sound like "chitin" (ky-tin) or more like nectarine (eg. "ky-teen")?
SteveMND wrote:
seti wrote:
I pronounce it as two syllables: OH-tyug. Like the proper pronunciation of Tokyo: TOH-kyoh, not To-ki-oh.
If you can't figure out how to pronounce "tyug," well I can't really help you.
Otyugh? That one is easy! It's pronounced "dung monster," or "gulguthra" if you want to get fancy - that weird O name is just the recorded onomatopoeia of the first adventurer to see one of these things sneezing, as he was allergic to the mold which commonly grows in damp caverns and sewers that the filthy beast prefers to dwell in.
souldoubt wrote:
Timborama wrote:
I don't think there's much debate on the correct pronunciation, but I have a helluva time saying Prestidigitation after my third beer.
My take on the above...
suh - WAH - ghin (hard G like ghost)
kat - oh - BLEE - puss
oh - tee - YUGH (monster like that definitely deserves an emphasis on UGH)
Some dialects turn the soft a followed by a G into a hard A. Bag sounds like beg, and annoyingly, D&D becomes Dungeons and Dray-guns.
I say " sah-wah-GIN" (hard G, not a 'j'sound)
"cat-OH-blee-pass"
I also say Drow rhyming with 'bow' as in to drop your head in respect; not a device to shoot arrows. That might seem obvious, but I have heard 'Drooooh" before.
I say "Koo-OH-tow-AH" for those other fish monsters. LOL, I like the MM 5e illo of that beastie...The first one, he looks all stoked for something. It's almost cute. The emo pixie is hilarious too...Dude looks like he's seen some sh_t.
I seem to remember that at some point, in the 2e TSR days, they actually did a pronunciation guide....I wish they'd do that again. Just because.
If it was in Dragon, well, WotC (I think) owns it...so...Just reprint it as a free pdf.
Fact is, this should all have been edited into MM's for years (decades, even) by now. Oh well. Whatever. If it were my creation, I'd have done that. Besides, it's not hard to do a pronunciation (at least in english) at the top of each funky monster stat block,
I say it Sah-HWAG-in.
As for catoblepas, that's not a random collection syllables like some of the others, but a "real" mythical creature with a definitive English pronounciation: cat-o-bleh-pas. "Bleh," not "blee." It's from the greek "katablépō." (wikipedia link, wiktionary link)
Azzy1974 wrote:
souldoubt wrote:
Timborama wrote:
The Spell 'Geas" is another one for me...I've never encountered that word outside of D&D, so...I say it like the plural for goose.
That vampyric, sentient manta ray monster might be the worst...Ixilchitilcoktilbitil or whatever. I get some of those sylables, as I did study pre-colombian art and architecture in grad school, so I just pretend it's an Aztec word, even though it is not.
seti wrote:
seti wrote:
seti wrote:
OHT-yu - long "o", long "u" sound, silent G. Or, OH-tee-yu - long "o", long "u", silent G.
Sow-WAH-ghin - hard G sound.
Kat-oh-bleh-plus - short "a", long "o"
Geas = Geese in northeast Faerun, the Western Heartlands, Dalelands and Gay-us in Sword Coast and southwest (Amn, Tethyr, etc.) and Geez in east and southeast (Thay, Rashemen, Unther, Dambrath, etc.) Faerun, Ghee-us in The North (Waterdeep, Silverymoon, Neverwinter, Icewind Dale, etc. Jee-us in the Dragon Coast region. We mostly play in the Forgotten Realms.
Brock_Landers wrote:
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SteveMND wrote:
seti wrote:
SteveMND wrote:
I think that Tlaloc was the one who was the most popular at the end of the Aztec empire/civilization. Cortez and such saw that the most. Some Aztecs even thought the Spaniards/Cortez was Quetzalquoatl, or another diety. That's one reason it was so easy for a few hundred Spanish guys to defeat thousands. Well, that and steel. And disease.
But, yeah, SteveMND, most of what I've seen/read indecates that there was a lot of sacrifice, and even more self-inflicted injury. (The Maya, and I think Aztec too...Not sure...Had ropes peppered with thorns they'd pull through their tongues regularly. Fun.)
Archaeologists, Historians/Art historians are a funny bunch. Every god has every 'domain', and anything without an obvious use is a 'ritual object' or 'temple'.
PS: Just read 'Outback Orcs'. Now...that's a bucket of awesome, LMAO.
seti wrote:
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